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Definition of Paradise flower
1. Noun. Tropical shrub or small tree having showy yellow to orange-red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana.
Group relationships: Caesalpinia, Genus Caesalpinia
Generic synonyms: Flowering Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paradise Flower
Literary usage of Paradise flower
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1903)
"Bird of paradise flower. See STRELITZIA. Birds. The birds form that class (Aves)
of warm-blooded vertebrate animals most distinctive, most easily defined, ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"BIRD OF paradise flower. A South African genus of 4 or 5 species of perennial herbs,
... BIRD OF paradise flower. Fig. 2432. About 3 ft. high: roots large, ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"BIRD-OP-paradise flower. Fig. all radical, 2-3 times as long as the Ivs.: scape
higher Ivs. oblong, about 1 ft. long, stiff, concave: If .-stalks ..."
4. Roba Di Roma by William Wetmore Story (1887)
"And Jesus Christ for husband I desire, And we our fete will keep in Paradise.
Flower of the pea! Just as becoming corals are to you, As on my donkey little ..."
5. Carotinoids and Related Pigments: The Chromolipoids by Leroy Sheldon Palmer (1922)
"... (Bird-of-paradise flower), Tammes, Kohl. Sisymbrium Sophia, Tammes. Telekia
speciosissima, Tschirch. Tagetes patula (Marigold) ..."
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